Senator Durbin Urges China to Free Political Prisoners Before Xi’s US Visit
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Several bipartisan members of the U.S. Congress stated that while the recent release and reunion of Pastor Ezra Mingri Jin of the Zion Church in Beijing with his family in the United States is a heartening development, a large number of political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and human rights activists continue to be detained in China. They called on Beijing to immediately release all those detained for peacefully exercising their fundamen…
Senator Durbin Urges China to Free Political Prisoners Before Xi’s US Visit
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is urging Beijing to release eight members of one of China’s most prominent underground churches, along with several other high-profile political prisoners ahead of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s scheduled U.S. visit in September. The leader of Zion Church, Ezra Jin Mingri, was released earlier this month after U.S. President Donald Trump advocated for the pastor’s release during his trip to China in May, when he met with …
By JOHN AARON CORPORAL and EMMANUEL GATA “Let’s strengthen the campaign at the national and international levels to release all political prisoners, to raise awareness of who they are and demand that the Marcos administration release them.” This was the call of Cristina Palabay, secretary general of the human rights group Karapatan, during the launch of “Laya,” a campaign for the release of political prisoners in the Philippines on July 18 at Bo…
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